Jerry Perdomo found dead February 2012

The attorney for a Maine man charged with fatally shooting a central Florida firefighter over a drug debt wants a judge to throw out statements his client allegedly made to police.

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Jeffrey Silverstein told a Waldo County Superior Court judge Tuesday that statements 25-year-old Daniel Porter made to police in Connecticut last February should be inadmissible because Porter wasn't read his Miranda rights.

A few days later, Porter was charged in Maine in the death of 31-year-old Jerry Perdomo, of Orange City.

WLBZ-TV reported that prosecutors told the judge said that when Connecticut police questioned Porter in a hotel room, they didn't read him his rights because he wasn't under arrest and was free to leave at any time.

Perdomo was shot in the head and his body was found hidden in some woods near the home of Porter's grandmother.

Porter told officials that Perdomo owed him $3,000 and Perdomo had threatened to kill him and his family.

Perdomo allegedly traveled to Maine every month for nearly one year so he could sell prescription drugs from Florida, according to investigators.

Porter claims he shot Perdomo in self-defense, and an attorney said he'll prove in court the action was justified. He was denied bail in March. He has pleaded not guilty to murder.